So the good idea I thought we had to move to Austin to have our opportunity to "grow up" has turned out to be a complete disaster. Despite finding a job and whatnot, Felix and I have hit a downward spiral that is completely insane and it's never been this bad.

Christmas was good, we went to Houston to visit family and friends, but Christmas night we drove back and somewhere between ten-thirty pm and six am when I got up to go to work yesterday, my NEW CAR got broken into!! Apparently, they didn't know what they were doing and it was the last straw for Felix to say that he wanted to move back to Houston.

I miss Houston, too, don't get me wrong, but if we move back now all the complications and consequences are going to bite us in the ass. Literally. I can feel the chomping as I think about it.

On top of that, I decided to check the mail and boy was that a mistake. We seem to be catching up on the electric just enough to keep it from being turned off, but with Felix's job, we still aren't making enough money and one of our bills is behind over $500. I haven't had that happen in a long time. His car payment is like a light switch on and off of repo status and as of Christmas Eve it was back on. Click.

Our phone bill is past due with T-Mo, but not by much and usually they give me a lot of leeway because I've been with them for almost four or five years. After the fourth, though, I don't know what to do. I'm a little freaked out, you guys. I seem to think I have it figured out and it isn't really like that at all. Bleh.

We seem to get the important things paid, Rent, the electricity (somewhat) and buy food, and thankfully I DID get a car for Christmas where if this other one goes back, we still have one, but I don't really want that to happen. That's a responsibility we took on and in truth we can afford it, just not here in Austin. It's beginning to get too expensive to even live here, despite me working almost fifty hours a week and Felix working well over even that.

The thing with my car getting broken into just knocked the ball of the t-ball really.

I had a great Christmas with his family and our friends, even got to see my friend I hadn't seen since June from California and my friend who is also pregnant and due in February.

Felix and I agreed to not have Christmas for each other because of the money, but we still ended up spending too much, as always, for everyone else. We got two really good gifts that were totally perfect and I don't think in all the years before even when I was a kid I was so excited to get them. Mainly because I needed them. One of course was the car, but the other was from Dad and Cath and it was a freaking awesome digital camera! Hint, hint, right? No excuse now, huh? I get it, I get it :) We started taking pictures and stuff but Annie and Felix are sick. Annie is losing her voice and in a way it's cute. I gave her Dimetapp though and she tried to spit it all out.

We will have pictures soon, don't worry.

On the other foot is the dirty house issue. I can't keep it clean no matter what I try and I'm beginning to think that we have too much stuff??? Never seemed like a problem before but this apartment is a LOT smaller than the others we've ever lived in. Only two hundred sq. ft. bigger than my one bedroom a few years back.....

Anyway, that's the update, however two-sided it may be. Thank you for all the presents and stuffs even though I'm OCD about my car now with a broken window, wondering if those idiots will come back because they actually figured out how to get the radio out... if they didn't tonight.

Well, love ya all and Merry Belated Christmas!!